Should companies like Coca-Cola have to warn consumers about obesity?

It may be the start of a trend — companies that sell food and drinks that make people fat warning them about it.

As the AP reported, “(Coca-Cola) will begin airing a two-minute spot during the highest-rated shows on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC in hopes of flexing its marketing muscle in the debate over sodas and their impact on public health. The ad lays out Coca-Cola’s record of providing drinks with fewer calories and notes that weight gain is the result of consuming too many calories of any kind — not just soda.

” … Michael Jacobson, executive director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, was skeptical about Coca-Cola’s ads and said the company would stop fighting soda taxes if it was serious about helping reduce obesity. ‘It looks like a page out of damage control 101,’ he said. ‘They’re trying to disarm the public’.”

Whaddya think?

— Should companies like Coca-Cola make this effort?

— Or should consumers be responsible for their own health?

— Should people be allowed to sue companies like Coca-Cola if they become fat from consuming their products?